The Fantastic in the Argosy: 1934
If you missed the last one… 1934 was the last year of the big serials, before most of the SF/F is replaced by short stories Read More
If you missed the last one… 1934 was the last year of the big serials, before most of the SF/F is replaced by short stories Read More
Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, October 1981 did something special for Halloween. An issue devoted to monsters– well, criminals who appeared to be monsters anyway–in a Read More
If you missed the last one… Avon’s Space Detective starred The Avenger, Rod Hathaway. (Not to be confused with Paul Ernst’s The Avenger, Richard Benson.) Read More
I recently re-watched The Gargoyles (1972) on Tubi. They have a free version that isn’t hard to watch visually. So many television movies are taken Read More
Robert Bloch’s first comics appeared in unauthorized versions that “borrowed” the ideas from his stories without acknowledging where they came from. A perfect example of Read More
The Vampire Master and Other Tales of Horror (2000) was Edmond Hamilton’s seventh collection. Like his first, it was intended to present Hamilton as horror Read More
“The Valley Was Still” is a classic tale by Manly Wade Wellman from Weird Tales. It was filmed as “Still Valley” for Twilight Zone, shown Read More
Not all ghostbreakers have lengthy careers like Carnacki, Semi-Dual or Jules De Grandin. Often they are single event participants like the unnamed narrator in Bulwer-Lytton’s Read More
With the success of Dr. Occult at DC in 1935, comic publishers created a host of ghost-busting heroes. At Fiction House, this was Drew Murdoch Read More
The Sherlock Holmes tale “The Adventure of the Creeping Man” by Arthur Conan Doyle might have been called “The Case of the Monkey Glands”. The Read More